Blimps/Aero-Sattelites hovering at around 40,000 ft that gets them above a lot of the atmosphere and a lot of the weather.
At that height the output of solar panels goes up compared to ground based solar, because there is a lot less atmosphere absorbing the energy before it gets to the panel.
The solar power could be used for the repeaters, antennas, eletric propellors for station keeping, etc.
And systems like these could be deployed over a disaster site like Haiti very quickly to network emergency responders and other aid organizations.
No, I saw the commercial with the two guys calling the guy's wife on the plane and asking for her to unlock the car with OnStar from her iPhone. I immediately thought that my wife does not have an iPhone, or a smartphone of any kind. And that I would not be able to do it until they wrote an app for my Droid.
I was passed a story on something like this a monthy ago, and was reminded of the kids in the 90s using Palm Pilots to copy and replay InfaRed signals from people remotes to steal cars.
So the real assumption is all consumer electronics are hackable, you get dissappointed less that way.
Not that you need to be spun up further, but NASA also used to load LEAD onto the Shuttle to keep the ass end down on reentry. Over the lifetime of the program there have been tons and tons of lead flown into space on the shuttle so that it could keep a stable profile on reentry. Again more interesting tidbits from the MIT open courseware Aerospace lecture series with the shuttle's designers and engineers.
If you listen to the MIT Open courseware series where they had lots of presenters talk about the designing and building the shuttle, one of the engineers talks about the fact the Shuttle was designed without autocad, just blueprints. He also mentioned that if diagnostics wiring had been included in the main engines they could be tested without removing them from the shuttle.
Amazon has a service with a limited catalog, but often stuff I missed at the theaters.
Cost for a popular movie in HD is $4.99, same movie in Standard Def is $3.99, less popular movies are $2.99, $1.99 and sometimes even $.99
They often have Weekend Movie sales where they knock off $1 or more from the rental price. Comes up on my Tivo as $.99 movie sale or $1.99 movie sale.
As part of Amazon Prime you get a smaller streaming catalog included with the service, mostly TV shows. I already pay for the service to get the 'free' shipping, may as well get the movies and TV shows.
Tivo also offers me Hulu now, but I'm not sold on its content or subscription model.
For the same Reason Excel and Powerpoint aren't real analysis tools I expect many people to abuse this tool to prove the wrong things.
Or like the Powerpoint Space Shuttle Foam issue, inadvertantly give the wrong message because they don't know how to convey what they mean to get across.
You might want to read up on what Ireland looked like economically before the crisis, hint they weren't in debt up to their eyeballs like the Greeks were.
Maybe in the first movies, you know the original Trilogy.
In Phantom Menace Ray Park (Darth Maul) actually wanted all of the moves in the fight scenes to have legitimate targets. As in: I am swinging for his head, he is trying to stop me from hitting his head, etc.
Speaking as a fencer, I had a buddy that tied a string to the floor and ceiling of his garage, he put a tennis ball on the string at chest height and would practice stabbing it for a little while each day. His point control improved, and that was just going for a target.
It wouldn't be that hard to attach a torso to this thing giving it a target to protect and ask it to knock away the opponents blade. It obviously doesn't advance and retreat like a real opponent, but you have to start somewhere.
Defense and security: In 2010, some 20 percent of the budget, or $715 billion, will pay for defense and security-related international activities. The bulk of the spending in this category reflects the underlying costs of the Department of Defense and other security-related activities. The total also includes the cost of supporting operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is expected to total $172 billion in 2010.
Social Security: Another 20 percent of the budget, or $708 billion, will pay for Social Security, which provided retirement benefits averaging $1,117 per month to 36 million retired workers (and their eligible dependents) in December 2009. Social Security also provided survivors’ benefits to 6.4 million surviving children and spouses of deceased workers and disability benefits to 9.7 million disabled workers and their eligible dependents in December 2009.
Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP: Three health insurance programs — Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) — will together account for 21 percent of the budget in 2010, or $753 billion. Nearly two-thirds of this amount, or $468 billion, will go to Medicare, which provides health coverage to around 46 million people who are over the age of 65 or have disabilities. The remainder of this category funds Medicaid and CHIP, which in a typical month in 2010 will provide health care or long-term care to about 64 million low-income children, parents, elderly people, and people with disabilities. Both Medicaid and CHIP require matching payments from the states.
Great so he destroyed everything he had, if he's the trader, then someone at the companies he traded in will know the information given to him.
Not only did he not get his own mailservers, he didn't get their mailservers, his accomplices hard drives, the coorperation of his colleague Mr. Freeman or anyone else that is going to turn evidence on him to get their own sentences commuted.
The Prisoners Dilemma in the 21st century: Everyone Encrypts (phones, emails, hard drives) and Nobody Talks. Otherwise somebody is going to have evidence pinned on them, then its just a race to be the first in line to rat the others out.
Maybe I'm wooshing on a joke here, but just in case I'm not.
Drafting is a drawing discipline that existed as a pre-Engineering/pre-Architecture skill which allowed a Draftsman to make a drawing of an object from many angles on a blueprint. Most times the blueprint was used as the basis for building the object be it a machinist's vise or someone's house.
I took 2 years of Drafting, and though my classes was concurrent with the existance of AutoCAD, the high school I attended did not have enough RAM to run the software. They had a PC and a license, just not enough RAM. RAM was ~$30 per Megabyte at the time, so 16Mb or 32MB might run you $500 to $1,000.
For those of you who care, the drawings were done on Vellum in very light pencil and then carefully inked with technical pens, when dry the drawings were fed into a blueprint machine, this was an offset press using alcohol that would produce a blue on white copy of your original.
Oddly enough I did some drawings for copyrighting an engine cam, and patenting a gun mount for a tank that ever required any engineering degree. Of course I never made any claims on what the devices would do, only what they looked like.
Two things, one a better analogy might have been Frank Lloyd Wright built lots of buildings, some were significant for techniques used, like the Earthquakeproof Imperial Hotel in Japan, floated on a bed of mud with stilts going down to bedrock. Leon Moisseiff designed the Manhattan Bridge and inspired the Golden Gate bridge, both fine examples of the craft but Engineers might pay more attention to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, also a Moisseiff design.
I took a quick peek at the Met's walkaround from Goolge, they need more pixels, don't let the Gigapixel nonsense fool you.
Also I wish they'd offerred a peek at the Armor collection, or maybe I just haven't crab-walked my way around the museum far enough yet.
Ok, not having looked at the article, I can tell you that a museum curator would pick a piece of art that is either well known, or rare, possibly both. You might have 10 paintings of Haystacks or Waterlillies from Monet, so you'd pick one that is particularly good or shows some technique the artist is well known for. That decision is wholly constrained by which pieces you have. So the best example of Monet's art might not be the one you have, but you show the best example you do have.
One thing this will not bring out possibly is Van Gogh, the man's brush strokes are heavy, he lays layer upon layer of paint on the canvas, it built up a visual appeal on seeing the piece that a 2D representation could not, however Google streetview might do it more justice than the slides we had to make do with in Art History class.
You can't see everything past the midpoint, or the center of origin. It's the classical two trains leave the station at Noon, both heading in different direactions at the speed of light, you'll never be able to see further back (or farther away) than the station.
However what they are saying additionally is that there were 250 trains leaving the station, all in different directions at the speed of light, and we'll never be able to see anything but our own train, and the path it took, scenery it passed by.
However this should be fairly easy to prove if there are any gravity lenses on either side of our slice of the pie so we could see over the fence due to lensing effects.
If we don't have any convenient Gravity lenses, we could start shooting off Voyager style space probes with big Hubble like attachments on them to take pictures of places we can't see from here.
Your firewall is a bottleneck in the way that the front door to your house is a bottleneck, in a DDoS situation, it's like someone said there was a SuperBowl party at your house and lots of people start coming over, flooding through the door and using up all of your resources.
What the article doesn't say is if you didn't have a front door or wall on your house protecting the resources, people would still come in and take them. The Security researcher goes on to say that you should put better security on your Router instead. In this case the router would just be another door or gate further away from the 'resources'.
So the article could have been named "Better Router security key to DDoS defense." but that's not as likely to draw hits as something provocative saying Firewalls are not only not stopping the problem, they are making the problem worse.
Well way back when folks mumbled something about rate limiting DoS attacks from your ISP, which would help you keep your head above water. Certainly defense in depth is having multiple layers of security, the router should be the first layer, maybe the firewall is the second, or maybe a load balancer with firewalls behind them, and then lots of servers to handle the traffic.
Maybe instead of what isn't working, we should look at DDoS attack that fail, like the recent one on Amazon whose distributed architecture was not brought down by the Distributed attack.
At 1 Million cars they probably wouldn't have the density to cause the problem you're talking about.
But that is not a reason to not have electric cars, its a reason to upgrade the woefully outdated patchwork quilt that is our power grid.
You might say the same thing about transformers staying hot because of Wind power at night, skyscrapers and stadiums making tons of ice overnight to feed their AC systems during the day, industrial facilities using compressed air storage to take advantage of cheaper off-peak rates. Eventually one of these techniques will expose the frailty of the grid, not just electric cars.
I used to work with a facility 100 feet underground, it was an old limestone quarry, more like a mine really. Anyhow they have these all over the St. Louis area, most of them are used for warehouse space. They are a constant temp about 68F and constant humidity.
The biggest problem we had was Limestone dust, it got into everything, killed dozens of hard drives. Once we got filtered air to an enclosed space everything was fine. Power seemed to be good most of the time, we still had UPS units. The only other big issue was getting new circuits to the demarc, if you're having one put in, have them run as many lines as you can afford, getting new ones takes a while.
Lastly you need borderline submariners to work there, no windows, nothing but artifical light, its psychological but some folks can't take it. I was there one week while they were recruiting and one gal quit on her first day.
Without reading the article, the Client wanted a skillset and was willing to pay X amount for it.
OldDOG should not be looking at what the Freshout is getting paid, but what the client's need were he wasn't meeting. The client calls the tune, maybe OldDOG needs to find himself an O'Reily book with a funky critter on the cover, what are they $20-$50 tops?
He might just have been insinuating that there was nothing stopping OldDEV from learning hot technology X.
My old company paid $5k for referrals, then one day they announced a job with a $10k referral bonus, I asked my old bosses, asked colleagues, everybody I know on LinkedIN and nobody knew a guy with 5+ years of ArcSight experience.
My old boss said when you can't find a guy, then you need to BE the guy. If it wasn't for the 5 year requirement I might have taken a bootcamp and still be ahead a few grand.
Studying for certs is hard, taking your freetime and doing something to better yourself is hard, it gets harder when you get old and complacent. That is still no excuse to let your skills lapse.
Every time my old company sent out jobs I'd look at em, not because I wanted to go somewhere else, but to see what the market was looking for. Same thing with my long standing Dice job searches, I read the results to see where the market is headed.
Funny Answer: A young Michael York in a black jumpsuit calls you a runner and tries to kill you.
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Blimps/Aero-Sattelites hovering at around 40,000 ft that gets them above a lot of the atmosphere and a lot of the weather.
At that height the output of solar panels goes up compared to ground based solar, because there is a lot less atmosphere absorbing the energy before it gets to the panel.
The solar power could be used for the repeaters, antennas, eletric propellors for station keeping, etc.
And systems like these could be deployed over a disaster site like Haiti very quickly to network emergency responders and other aid organizations.
No, I saw the commercial with the two guys calling the guy's wife on the plane and asking for her to unlock the car with OnStar from her iPhone. I immediately thought that my wife does not have an iPhone, or a smartphone of any kind. And that I would not be able to do it until they wrote an app for my Droid.
I was passed a story on something like this a monthy ago, and was reminded of the kids in the 90s using Palm Pilots to copy and replay InfaRed signals from people remotes to steal cars.
So the real assumption is all consumer electronics are hackable, you get dissappointed less that way.
Send a Recall Notice, you make an appointment, you go back to the dealer and they update the Firmware.
the feature dimension ...is below the resolution limit of human eyes, and, thus... appears transparent."
Not that you need to be spun up further, but NASA also used to load LEAD onto the Shuttle to keep the ass end down on reentry. Over the lifetime of the program there have been tons and tons of lead flown into space on the shuttle so that it could keep a stable profile on reentry. Again more interesting tidbits from the MIT open courseware Aerospace lecture series with the shuttle's designers and engineers.
If you listen to the MIT Open courseware series where they had lots of presenters talk about the designing and building the shuttle, one of the engineers talks about the fact the Shuttle was designed without autocad, just blueprints. He also mentioned that if diagnostics wiring had been included in the main engines they could be tested without removing them from the shuttle.
Amazon has a service with a limited catalog, but often stuff I missed at the theaters.
Cost for a popular movie in HD is $4.99, same movie in Standard Def is $3.99, less popular movies are $2.99, $1.99 and sometimes even $.99
They often have Weekend Movie sales where they knock off $1 or more from the rental price. Comes up on my Tivo as $.99 movie sale or $1.99 movie sale.
As part of Amazon Prime you get a smaller streaming catalog included with the service, mostly TV shows. I already pay for the service to get the 'free' shipping, may as well get the movies and TV shows.
Tivo also offers me Hulu now, but I'm not sold on its content or subscription model.
For the same Reason Excel and Powerpoint aren't real analysis tools I expect many people to abuse this tool to prove the wrong things.
Or like the Powerpoint Space Shuttle Foam issue, inadvertantly give the wrong message because they don't know how to convey what they mean to get across.
You might want to read up on what Ireland looked like economically before the crisis, hint they weren't in debt up to their eyeballs like the Greeks were.
Maybe in the first movies, you know the original Trilogy.
In Phantom Menace Ray Park (Darth Maul) actually wanted all of the moves in the fight scenes to have legitimate targets. As in: I am swinging for his head, he is trying to stop me from hitting his head, etc.
Speaking as a fencer, I had a buddy that tied a string to the floor and ceiling of his garage, he put a tennis ball on the string at chest height and would practice stabbing it for a little while each day. His point control improved, and that was just going for a target.
It wouldn't be that hard to attach a torso to this thing giving it a target to protect and ask it to knock away the opponents blade. It obviously doesn't advance and retreat like a real opponent, but you have to start somewhere.
Defense and security: In 2010, some 20 percent of the budget, or $715 billion, will pay for defense and security-related international activities. The bulk of the spending in this category reflects the underlying costs of the Department of Defense and other security-related activities. The total also includes the cost of supporting operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is expected to total $172 billion in 2010.
Social Security: Another 20 percent of the budget, or $708 billion, will pay for Social Security, which provided retirement benefits averaging $1,117 per month to 36 million retired workers (and their eligible dependents) in December 2009. Social Security also provided survivors’ benefits to 6.4 million surviving children and spouses of deceased workers and disability benefits to 9.7 million disabled workers and their eligible dependents in December 2009.
Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP: Three health insurance programs — Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) — will together account for 21 percent of the budget in 2010, or $753 billion. Nearly two-thirds of this amount, or $468 billion, will go to Medicare, which provides health coverage to around 46 million people who are over the age of 65 or have disabilities. The remainder of this category funds Medicaid and CHIP, which in a typical month in 2010 will provide health care or long-term care to about 64 million low-income children, parents, elderly people, and people with disabilities. Both Medicaid and CHIP require matching payments from the states.
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1258
Great so he destroyed everything he had, if he's the trader, then someone at the companies he traded in will know the information given to him.
Not only did he not get his own mailservers, he didn't get their mailservers, his accomplices hard drives, the coorperation of his colleague Mr. Freeman or anyone else that is going to turn evidence on him to get their own sentences commuted.
The Prisoners Dilemma in the 21st century: Everyone Encrypts (phones, emails, hard drives) and Nobody Talks. Otherwise somebody is going to have evidence pinned on them, then its just a race to be the first in line to rat the others out.
Maybe I'm wooshing on a joke here, but just in case I'm not.
Drafting is a drawing discipline that existed as a pre-Engineering/pre-Architecture skill which allowed a Draftsman to make a drawing of an object from many angles on a blueprint. Most times the blueprint was used as the basis for building the object be it a machinist's vise or someone's house.
I took 2 years of Drafting, and though my classes was concurrent with the existance of AutoCAD, the high school I attended did not have enough RAM to run the software. They had a PC and a license, just not enough RAM. RAM was ~$30 per Megabyte at the time, so 16Mb or 32MB might run you $500 to $1,000.
For those of you who care, the drawings were done on Vellum in very light pencil and then carefully inked with technical pens, when dry the drawings were fed into a blueprint machine, this was an offset press using alcohol that would produce a blue on white copy of your original.
Oddly enough I did some drawings for copyrighting an engine cam, and patenting a gun mount for a tank that ever required any engineering degree. Of course I never made any claims on what the devices would do, only what they looked like.
Don't forget the;
Roller Coaster Scramjet
Lighter than air or neutrally buoyant Space elevator
High Altitude Lighter than air Rocket Launch Platform
White Knight X carrying Giant rocket
Two things, one a better analogy might have been Frank Lloyd Wright built lots of buildings, some were significant for techniques used, like the Earthquakeproof Imperial Hotel in Japan, floated on a bed of mud with stilts going down to bedrock. Leon Moisseiff designed the Manhattan Bridge and inspired the Golden Gate bridge, both fine examples of the craft but Engineers might pay more attention to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, also a Moisseiff design.
I took a quick peek at the Met's walkaround from Goolge, they need more pixels, don't let the Gigapixel nonsense fool you.
Also I wish they'd offerred a peek at the Armor collection, or maybe I just haven't crab-walked my way around the museum far enough yet.
Ok, not having looked at the article, I can tell you that a museum curator would pick a piece of art that is either well known, or rare, possibly both. You might have 10 paintings of Haystacks or Waterlillies from Monet, so you'd pick one that is particularly good or shows some technique the artist is well known for. That decision is wholly constrained by which pieces you have. So the best example of Monet's art might not be the one you have, but you show the best example you do have.
One thing this will not bring out possibly is Van Gogh, the man's brush strokes are heavy, he lays layer upon layer of paint on the canvas, it built up a visual appeal on seeing the piece that a 2D representation could not, however Google streetview might do it more justice than the slides we had to make do with in Art History class.
You can't see everything past the midpoint, or the center of origin. It's the classical two trains leave the station at Noon, both heading in different direactions at the speed of light, you'll never be able to see further back (or farther away) than the station.
However what they are saying additionally is that there were 250 trains leaving the station, all in different directions at the speed of light, and we'll never be able to see anything but our own train, and the path it took, scenery it passed by.
However this should be fairly easy to prove if there are any gravity lenses on either side of our slice of the pie so we could see over the fence due to lensing effects.
If we don't have any convenient Gravity lenses, we could start shooting off Voyager style space probes with big Hubble like attachments on them to take pictures of places we can't see from here.
Thank you Anonymous Coward...
Your firewall is a bottleneck in the way that the front door to your house is a bottleneck, in a DDoS situation, it's like someone said there was a SuperBowl party at your house and lots of people start coming over, flooding through the door and using up all of your resources.
What the article doesn't say is if you didn't have a front door or wall on your house protecting the resources, people would still come in and take them. The Security researcher goes on to say that you should put better security on your Router instead. In this case the router would just be another door or gate further away from the 'resources'.
So the article could have been named "Better Router security key to DDoS defense." but that's not as likely to draw hits as something provocative saying Firewalls are not only not stopping the problem, they are making the problem worse.
Well way back when folks mumbled something about rate limiting DoS attacks from your ISP, which would help you keep your head above water. Certainly defense in depth is having multiple layers of security, the router should be the first layer, maybe the firewall is the second, or maybe a load balancer with firewalls behind them, and then lots of servers to handle the traffic.
Maybe instead of what isn't working, we should look at DDoS attack that fail, like the recent one on Amazon whose distributed architecture was not brought down by the Distributed attack.
Wasn't this why Google developed the App Inventor, but then didn't let people actually sell apps developed with it in the App Store?
At 1 Million cars they probably wouldn't have the density to cause the problem you're talking about.
But that is not a reason to not have electric cars, its a reason to upgrade the woefully outdated patchwork quilt that is our power grid.
You might say the same thing about transformers staying hot because of Wind power at night, skyscrapers and stadiums making tons of ice overnight to feed their AC systems during the day, industrial facilities using compressed air storage to take advantage of cheaper off-peak rates. Eventually one of these techniques will expose the frailty of the grid, not just electric cars.
I used to work with a facility 100 feet underground, it was an old limestone quarry, more like a mine really. Anyhow they have these all over the St. Louis area, most of them are used for warehouse space. They are a constant temp about 68F and constant humidity.
The biggest problem we had was Limestone dust, it got into everything, killed dozens of hard drives. Once we got filtered air to an enclosed space everything was fine. Power seemed to be good most of the time, we still had UPS units. The only other big issue was getting new circuits to the demarc, if you're having one put in, have them run as many lines as you can afford, getting new ones takes a while.
Lastly you need borderline submariners to work there, no windows, nothing but artifical light, its psychological but some folks can't take it. I was there one week while they were recruiting and one gal quit on her first day.
Emperor Ming will be pleased.
Without reading the article, the Client wanted a skillset and was willing to pay X amount for it.
OldDOG should not be looking at what the Freshout is getting paid, but what the client's need were he wasn't meeting. The client calls the tune, maybe OldDOG needs to find himself an O'Reily book with a funky critter on the cover, what are they $20-$50 tops?
He might just have been insinuating that there was nothing stopping OldDEV from learning hot technology X.
My old company paid $5k for referrals, then one day they announced a job with a $10k referral bonus, I asked my old bosses, asked colleagues, everybody I know on LinkedIN and nobody knew a guy with 5+ years of ArcSight experience.
My old boss said when you can't find a guy, then you need to BE the guy. If it wasn't for the 5 year requirement I might have taken a bootcamp and still be ahead a few grand.
Studying for certs is hard, taking your freetime and doing something to better yourself is hard, it gets harder when you get old and complacent. That is still no excuse to let your skills lapse.
Every time my old company sent out jobs I'd look at em, not because I wanted to go somewhere else, but to see what the market was looking for. Same thing with my long standing Dice job searches, I read the results to see where the market is headed.
Funny Answer: A young Michael York in a black jumpsuit calls you a runner and tries to kill you.